Tiny bug in Remove-VM

[erickmiller]

Unless I'm missing something, it appears like Remove-VM asks for confirmation regardless of specifying the -Confirm option or not.

Fantastic tools by the way! I've been waiting a long time for this!

Eric

[LucD]

Did you use the option like this -confirm:$false ?

See also http://communities.vmware.com/thread/130688?tstart=20.

[halr9000]

Check out this article by the powershell team on $confirmpreference. Short version is the cmdlet developer decides how much impact a given action will have, and they give that action a confirm threshold. You will be asked for confirmation depending on whether the action is higher or lower than the value of $confirmpreference.

When you don't want to have to worry about this, it's best to manually specify $false as LucD mentioned.

Hal Rottenberg

Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

[erickmiller]

Fantastic! The -Confirm:$false parameter worked great.

I'm not too familiar with PowerShell (yet). It's nice to see these messages coming from a "standard" shell response instead of having each cmdlet using its own custom approach to dealing with this type of thing.

Thanks!

Eric

[halr9000]

I'm not too familiar with PowerShell (yet). It's nice to see these messages coming from a "standard" shell response instead of having each cmdlet using its own custom approach to dealing with this type of thing.

That, my friend, is the point of PowerShell. :smileyhappy:

Hal Rottenberg

Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)